I can’t get over the fact that they exist. The band had to decide that, at some point. “You know what? Paul and Richard should totally kiss after Auslander.” Then they all had to agree to it, especially Paul and Richard.
Then, they had to keep doing it. After the long Covid intermission, they had to decide, “We’re changing some songs, but that kiss? We’re keeping it in.”
And somehow, despite them being on tour together, every time they are as excited to meet on stage as a dog whose master was on vacation for a weekend. They smile and giggle. “Hi! Great to see you! Are we gonna kiss? Are we gonna hug? Are we gonna do something silly???”
Hell, they even seem to do that outside of the Dedicated Kissing Break. They’ll just turn to see each other on the little stage or one will get off the boat and be like, “Hi! Great to see you!!! Would you like to hug???”
Yes, this is the picture of the day or maybe even a week :D I still like to call them Feelin B fraction of the band, althought they themselves probably would like to forget this :D But I believe that there is so much Feeling B influence in Rammstein - even Schneider admitted it MMED - he said Paul brought into Rammstiten Aljoshas way of presenting absolute mad ideas and igniting others and actually pulling it though, making the seeminly impossible work.
I also suspect that these three are mostly to blame that we have the Zeit album. Till and Richard have not needed Rammstein for years, they know how to have fun on their own, Till is even touring. And Oliver will probably just happily tag along when band is active but not maybe initiate a meeting? Or as Pauls closer circle we might as well just count him in on the go :D Flakes presence in this album is very much heard, so i bet he had musical ideas, Paul is probaby very good at talking Till into doing right things for the band. Schneider has gained a status of bands shrink and mediator in years so i bet he talked Richard into it.
So here we have Daddy Doom and his band :) Thats how i see it nowadays :)
When I first heard the song, read the lyrics and then saw a video was announced, i thought it’s either going to be really one-dimensional (charicature like) or, as it’s Rammstein, hassome sort of twist.
On first watching it seemed the first, loads of boobs, horny old guy chasing the ladies, and plenty of white fluid splashing around. So that’s just that? I think there is more to it then just that..
My bet is that the style of videois reminscent of 1970’s (and 80’s) so called ’Lederhosen movies’ (also 'Tirolersex film’ or 'Bavarian porn’), a style of campy, humorous sex movie, known for it’s good amount of luscious females in the traditional southern German countryside ('Tiroler’ for that reason is not the right name, because that’s Austria), and pretty bad acting (which only increased the 'camp’ value).
Female nudity in a conservative, religious environment, with filmnames like 'Love through the backdoor’, 'Love greetings from the Lederhose’ or 'Yodeling from under the Dirndl’, the films were shocking at the time to older generations, but were seen as liberating to baby-boomers who were born after the second world war, for them the movies embodied the freedom of the sexual revolution. But everything lighthearted, nothing like the various porn you can find on every corner of the internet nowadays. These were the times when people only could watch movies in a cinema (before the invention of the home video player), and billboards to promote the movies were very.
All this happens in the 'Dicke Titten’ video, and there’s plenty of humor as well, like Horny geezer Till being rebuffed by one of the ladies…
…or trying to grab a bottle to pour himself a Schnaps, and completely missing the glass.
And also, leave that to Jörn Heitmann, some very Rammstein references like young boy trying the Till Hammer..
Boys burning a doll ('Puppe’ anyone?), Till giving the boy a pat on the head
…andFrau Herr Schneider behind a set of dogs…(coincidence? i don’t think so..)
so far so good, neat reference, bit of humor, light-hearted…if that were all, it would be a nice vid, bit of a laugh…
…but what if you’re not fitting in that conservative, traditional society, where what you do and how to behave is the same as everyone else does and the generations before them…where you can’t be yourself out in the open, people would talk, would point, laugh, probably expel you from your home and throw you out…and you can only be you hidden away, always on the lookout, anxious that people would find out..
you want to join in with what the others do, but maybe not in the role that everyone thinks you should fulfill
and just like that, this isn’t just a one dimensional movie anymore, there is a undertone of oppression, but trying to be yourself when you’re on your own.
When i first watched the video i felt Richard should have come out and made out with Till, and while we all would have loved that anyway (and the 'Making of’ could easily contain an alternate ending), on second thought, this way it’s better, because the storyline brings an edge, a depth to the story that no traditional 'Lederhosen movie’ i think ever had…
